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Bathroom installation query: Walls - ceramic tiles Floor - 20mm Wedi board + cable heating element + ceramic tiles. Question: Should I tile the walls first then install the floor, or should I do the floor first then tile the walls? Or does it make no difference? Advice would be appreciated.

Help! Came back from holiday over Christmas and when I press 'green' start/pause button, it bleeps but nothing else happens, regardless of which programe is selected. I've cleaned out fluff filter, checked water supply to valve, and checked connections between the "controls" PCB and the...

As I understand it, Part H requires soil vent pipe stack to be 900mm above nearest opening window. In my case, the soil vent pipe will emerge through the roof near to (about 800mm but not quite sure yet exactly how far from) a new opening Velux window. If I make the stack 900mm high it will (a)...

Anyone out there had experience of DVD and digital TV recording? Any digital TV buffs out there?? I have a good quality analogue telly which I do not want to replace. Trouble is, we go digital on 8th April. Do I: (a) buy a set top box for the TV and a Sony HXD HXD890 DVD/HDD recorder (with...

Is there any real performance difference between the latest USB2 rated extension cables, and older USB1.1 cables?

Q1. Is it possible to make a walk-in shower former (for timber floor)? (Must surely be cheaper than buying ready made version). Q2. If so, how? Q3. Is it practical or even sensible to make one's own shower former?

Motor won't start on its own unless you manually twiddle it to get it going. Everything works fine until it reverses direction, then it won't start again unless you twiddle the motor shaft. Disconnecting the drum drive band makes no difference: you still have to twiddle the motor shaft to get...

I'm looking for one of those old metal school compasses. The ones that have a screw thing on one side to hold a pencil, and a straight metal point on the other. You used to get them in Helix geometry sets in the '60s, along with some similar dividers. I've tried everywhere, but those they make...

All the folding sliding door gear I can find has the door hanger on the 'edge' axis of each door panel. Can anyone tell me where (or even if) I can get folding sliding dor gear where the door hanger is on the central vertical axis of each door panel?

I'm after a CD of proud, British, patriotic music. Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem, and all that. So I put "patriotic music" into Amazon Music. It came up with 25 or so possibilities. Apart from a Finnish one and a Czechoslovakian one, the rest were American. Why is this? Aren't there any...

I'm looking for approved contractors for Flex-R's Rubberbond EPDM roofing products. Flex-R will only give me local contractors and these will only fit whole roofs rather than supply product. Anywhere in the country will do. Thanks.

I might be in the market for buying a property in which the electrics have been updated at different times over the last 4 years, including some circuits with the new colour coded cable. Whilst everying thing I have checked seems to be installed very well and connected correctly (which is almost...

An electrician has wired a 2kW bathroom heater in my house using 1.0mm cable from a 6A mcb, as part of the lighting circuit. It works fine. However, my maths suggest that 2kW = about 8A, which exceeds the mcb rating. According to the DIYnot website, 1.0mm cable is suitable for up to 2400 watt...

Does anyone know if any other makes of MCB are compatible/interchangeable with Vynckier brand? Thanks

What's the difference between a 'lump hammer' and a 'club hammer'?

A certain well-known online supplier of electrical items states on its website that its low energy bulbs are unsuitable for use with dimmers, time switches, or photocells. Dimmers I can understand, but I can't understand why they are saying that you can't use them with time switches or...

Is there such a thing as a refillable caulking tube? I've got a bog-standard calking gun (several, in fact) but I want to use it to dispense things like PVA adhesive into long, thin joints. Can you get something like an empty tube with internal plunger which you can fill with whatever gunk you...

I've fitted Drayton TRV4 valves to all my radiators. System works perfectly, but I notice that as the valves close to restrict the water flow to the rads, near the point of closure, you can hear the water squeezing through the valve until it closes completely. When 3 or 4 valves are closing more...

A mate of mine was proudly showing me his brand-new house. The plumber had installed an Ariston sealed hot water system. He has mounted the safety valve in the pipework at the back of a cupboard above the cylinder (fair enough), but physically screwed an 18L expansion vessel horizontally into...

Just had some new double glazing installed in my bathroom. The doub;le glazing is fitted into the outer leaf of my cavity wall. If I want to create a tiled cill, with tiles up to the double glazing, what's the best way to bridge the cavity? I was thinking of using slates or roofing tiles...